System and methods for addressing mobile station in wireless communication system

摘要

In wireless communication system each MS is assigned a globally unique address. The method and system use one of these globally unique addresses to identify the MS. The efficient method of signaling this large size MS address (MS ID) is proposed. The ‘n’ bit MS ID is divided into ‘p’ parts wherein ‘p’ is greater than 1. The MS is addressed or identified using ‘x’ parts from a set of ‘p’ parts of MS ID, wherein ‘x’<=‘p’. Further, methods to determine and signal the number of parts i.e. value of ‘x’ and which ‘x’ parts out of ‘p’ parts to be used for addressing is also proposed. The decision to determine the number of parts i.e. value of ‘x’ and which ‘x’ parts out of ‘p’ parts to be used for addressing the MS may be static, semi static or dynamic.

主权项

1. A method for addressing a mobile station by a base station in a communication network, the method comprising:
identifying a combination of at least two parts that is unique across mobile station identifications (MS IDs) of other mobile stations, among a plurality of parts being partitioned from an MS ID of the mobile station; indicating the combination of the at least two parts to the mobile station; and addressing the mobile station based on the combination of the at least two parts, wherein the at least two parts are combined until the combined part is unique across the MS IDs of the other mobile stations if each of the plurality of parts is not unique across the MS IDs of the other mobile stations, and wherein the combination of the at least two parts is multiple times larger than a size of a part.